Quotes About Yearning

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

Though I lost you years ago, I dreamed you were here. That dream gave me the inspirational feeling that I could make it one more day.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

You can't go home again

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

God seeks us as eagerly as we seek God.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.

It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.

There is only one romance the Soul's.